The Lunar Festival is the World of Warcraft counterpart of the
Chinese New Year.
The event mostly revolves around firing up fireworks and visiting
Elders throughout the World of Warcraft. Most of the task to perform
are open to players of any level, with the exception of killing
Omen, the boss of the event, in Moonglade.
The event takes place in capital cities, Moonglade, and many villages
where Elders can be found. Many rewards can be earned, though most people
will solely focus on the pet reward.
This guide will walk you through everything you need to know to complete
the event.
1. Overview↑top
The Lunar Festival is a rather short event during which you will
mostly spend your time visiting elders to gather the coins that you
need to buy the rewards. In addition, there is a small event in
Moonglade during which you can kill Omen.
1.1. Date and Timeline
The Lunar Festival is a 3-week event. This year, it will start on
January the 22nd and finish on February the 12th.
There are no daily tasks, so the entire event can be completed
in a single day, if you wish to do so.
1.2. Location and Relevant NPCs
The event starts in any of the capital cities. Lunar Festival NPCs
will give you the first of the introductory quests. Then, you are sent to
Moonglade where you will find the reward vendors
Fariel Starsong and
Valadar Starsong (who also gives you the last quest). Lunar Festival Vendors
also sell fireworks in capital cities during the event.
In addition, you can visit the elders located in many cities and villages of
World of Warcraft. They will give you the coins you need to buy the rewards from
the vendors.
1.3. Currency
The currency of the event is
Coin of Ancestry. You will earn these coins
by visiting the elders scattered throughout the world. During a single Lunar
Festival, you can earn a fixed number of 84 of these coins, so you will have to
spend them carefully (see below).
These coins have no duration, so you will be able to spend the coins that you
have collected in the previous editions (provided that you have kept them).
2. Rewards↑top
The pets are the only rewards that will appeal to almost everyone. The rest of
the rewards are clothing items and fireworks, which are mostly needed to complete
some of the achievements.
2.1. Pets
The 2012 edition of the Lunar Festival will reward players with a specific pet:
Lunar Lantern (Alliance) or
Festival Lantern (Horde). This pet is to be
sold for 50
by Valadar Starsong.
2.2. Food
Festival Dumplings are sold by Valadar Starsong for 1
and
Moonglow is sold by the
Lunar Festival Vendor for 15
.
2.3. Clothing
To complete one of the achievements, you will have to spend 5
to buy one of these items from
Valadar Starsong:
In addition, you can buy, for 5
each, the
following patterns from Fariel Starsong:
2.4. Fireworks
Like clothing pieces, for most people, fireworks will only be used to
obtain some of the achievements. You can buy them from the
Lunar Festival Vendor:
Note that only Red Rocket Clusters and Festival Firecrackers are needed
for the achievements.
Additionally, Engineers can buy (from Fariel Starsong) patterns that
will enable them to craft various fireworks-related items:
Note that
Firework Launcher is used to fire regular firework
rockets while
Cluster Launcher is used to fire cluster rockets.
2.5. Vanity Items
The following vanity items are available during the event:
2.6. Achievements and Title
The meta-achievement of the event is
To Honor One's Elders. It rewards
the Elder title, counts towards
What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been (Alliance/Horde), and
requires you to complete all the achievements related to the event:
3. Quests↑top
The first thing you should do is the small quest chain that starts with
The Lunar Festival, given in capital cities by Lunar Festival Emissaries
to Alliance players and Lunar Festival Heralds to Horde players.
This first quest must be turned in to a Lunar Festival Harbinger. You will
find these NPCs in capital cities during the event. The follow-up quest is
Lunar Fireworks, which you can complete by firing up fireworks that you can
buy from the nearby vendor. After doing so, you will receive
Valadar Starsong. Before you use your
Lunar Festival Invitation (a reward
from the previous quest) to teleport to Moonglade and talk to
Valadar, make sure that you buy approximately 50 Cluster Rockets from the
Lunar Festival Vendor in your capital city (this is needed to summon
Omen later on).
3.1. Elune's Blessing & Omen
Valadar will give you the Elune's Blessing quest. Simply go to the south
eastern part of the lake in Moonglade. There you need to summon Omen, the
creature that needs to be killed (with a raid group preferably). To do so, keep
firing up Cluster Rockets from the launchers on the shore of the lake.
Several Minions of Omen will start appearing. If you keep
killing them and firing up rockets, Omen will eventually appear and your
group should have no problem bringing him down.
Once Omen is dead, standing next to its corpse will grant you
the
Elune's Blessing buff, which completes the quest. Note that
you can get the buff even if you did not participate in the actual fighting
or if you arrived after the boss was killed.
The rewards for completing Elune's Blessing are an
Elune's Lantern,
a vanity item that you can use to create
Elune Stones (another vanity
item), and a
Lunar Festival Fireworks Pack, which contains rockets
and cluster rockets.
Gaining the buff will also reward you with the
Elune's Blessing
achievement.
4. Visiting the Elders↑top
There are 84 Elders to visit in total. In this section, we will show where
the Elders are located for a given continent. We will not
give exact coordinates as each Elder you visit will give you a quest that
instantly completes, making it easier to spot them on the minimap (provided
that you enabled the highlight of low-level quest givers).
All the Elders give you a similar quest that rewards 1
and a
Lucky Red Envelope, which can
contain an
Elder's Moonstone or a
Lucky Rocket Cluster.
While visiting the Elders, you will obtain all the coins-related and
elders-related achievements.
Note that Alliance players must visit the Elders from
Elders of the Horde
and Horde players must visit the Elders from
Elders of the Alliance.
4.1. Eastern Kingdoms
- Elder Obsidian: The Sepulcher (Silverpine Forest)
- Elder Darkcore: Throne Room (Ruins of Lordaeron)
- Elder Graveborn: Brill (Tirisfal Glades)
- Elder Moonstrike: outside Scholomance (Western Plaguelands)
- Elder Meadowrun: inside the Weeping Cave (Western Plaguelands)
- Elder Farwhisper: Festival Lane (inside Stratholme)
- Elder Snowcrown: Light's Hope Chapel (Eastern Plaguelands)
- Elder Windrun: Crown Guard Tower (Eastern Plaguelands)
- Elder Highpeak: near the Creeping Ruin (middle of The Hinterlands)
- Elder Darkfeather: Thundermar Ruins, south-east of Thundermar (Twilight Highlands
- Elder Firebeard: Dunwald Ruins (Twilight Highlands)
- Elder Silvervein: Thelsamar (Loch Modan)
- Elder Dawnstrider: Flame Crest (Burning Steppes)
- Elder Rumblerock: Dreadmaul Rock (Burning Steppes)
- Elder Starsong: on the left atop the stairs (inside Sunken Temple)
- Elder Bellowrage: Dark Portal (Blasted Lands)
- Elder Starglade: outside Zul'Gurub (Northern Stranglethorn)
- Elder Winterhoof: bank in Booty Bay (The Cape of Stranglethorn)
- Elder Skychaser: top of Sentinel Hill (Westfall)
- Elder Stormbrow: Goldshire (Elwynn Forest)
- Elder Hammershout: just outside Stormwind City (Elwynn Forest)
- Elder Stonefort: Hordemar City (inside Lower Blackrock Spire)
- Elder Morndeep: near the Ring of Law (inside Blackrock Depths)
- Elder Ironband: just outside the Blackchar Cave (Searing Gorge)
- Elder Bronzebeard: in front of the Mystic Ward (Ironforge)
- Elder Goldwell: Kharanos (Dun Morogh)
- Elder Moonlance: Biel'aran Ridge (Shimmering Expanse)
4.1.1. Deepholm
- Elder Stonebrand: entrance of Temple of Earth (Deepholm)
- Elder Deepforge: Stonehearth (Deepholm)
4.2. Kalimdor
- Elder Bladeswift: Cenarion Enclave (Darnassus)
- Elder Bladeleaf: Dolanaar (Teldrassil)
- Elder Starweave: close to Lor'danel (Darkshore)
- Elder Nightwind: Jaedenar (Felwood)
- Elder Riversong: north-west entrance to Astranaar (Ashenvale)
- Elder Windsong: Sanctuary of Malorne (Mount Hyjal)
- Elder Evershade: Nordrassil (Mount Hyjal)
- Elder Brightspear: eastern shore of Lake Kel'Theril (Winterspring)
- Elder Stonespire: Everlook (Winterspring)
- Elder Skygleam: Ravencrest Monument (Azshara)
- Elder Darkhorn: next to the Flight Master in Valley of Wisdom (Orgrimmar)
- Elder Runetotem: Razor Hill (Durotar)
- Elder Windtotem: Ratchet (Northern Barrens)
- Elder Moonwarden: The Crossroads (Northern Barrens)
- Elder High Mountain: Vendetta Point (Southern Barrens)
- Elder Bloodhoof: north of Bloodhoof Village (Mulgore)
- Elder Ezra Wheathoof: The Elder Rise (Thunder Bluff)
- Elder Splitrock: southernmost area of Zaetar's Grave (inside Maraudon)
- Elder Grimtotem: Lariss Pavillon, north of Camp Mojache (Feralas)
- Elder Mistwalker: Dire Maul Arena (Feralas)
- Elder Primestone: Crystal Vale (Silithus)
- Elder Bladesing: Cenarion Hold (Silithus)
- Elder Sekhemi: Ruins of Ammon (Uldum)
- Elder Thunderhorn: The Slithering Scar (Un'Goro)
- Elder Menkhaf: eastern side of Khartut's Tomb (Uldum)
- Elder Ragetotem: south of Valley of the Watchers (Tanaris)
- Elder Wildmane: Gahz'rilla's area inside (Zul'Farrak)
- Elder Dreamseer: Gadgetzan (Tanaris)
- Elder Morningdew: Fizzle & Pozzik's Speedbarge (Thousand Needles)
- Elder Skyseer: Freewind Post (Thousand Needles)
4.3. Northrend
- Elder Igasho: The Singing Grove (inside The Nexus)
- Elder Northal: Transitus Shield (Borean Tundra)
- Elder Pamuya: north of Warson Hold, overlooking Mightstone Quarry (Borean Tundra)
- Elder Sardis: just outside Valiance Keep, against the north-east wall (Borean Tundra)
- Elder Arp: D.E.H.T.A. Camp (Borean Tundra)
- Elder Sandrene: Lakeside Landing, River's Heart (Sholazar Basin)
- Elder Wanikaya: Rainspeak Rapids, near Avatar of Freya (Sholazar Basin)
- Elder Bluewolf: inside Wintergrasp Fortress (Wintergrasp)
- Elder Nurgen: After falling down to the Brood Pit (inside Azjol-Nerub)
- Elder Morthie: Star's Rest (Dragonblight)
- Elder Skywarden: south-western side of Agmar's Hammer (Dragonblight)
- Elder Thoim: Moa'ki Harbor, near the docks (Dragonblight)
- Elder Kilias: Raptor Pens (inside Drak'Tharon Keep)
- Elder Graymane: just outside K3 (The Storm Peaks)
- Elder Fargal: Frosthold (The Storm Peaks)
- Elder Stonebeard: Bouldercrag's Refuge (The Storm Peaks)
- Elder Yurauk: Crystalline Quarry (inside Halls of Stone)
- Elder Muraco: entrance of Camp Tunka'lo (The Storm Peaks)
- Elder Ohanzee: Tomb of the Ancients (inside Gundrak)
- Elder Tauros: Zim'Torga (Zul'Drak)
- Elder Beldak: just east of Westfall Brigade Encampment (Grizzly Hills)
- Elder Whurain: Camp Oneqwah (Grizzly Hills)
- Elder Lunaro: eastern part of the Ruins of Tethys (Grizzly Hills)
- Elder Chogan'gada: shortly after killing Skadi the Ruthless (inside Utgarde Pinnacle)
- Elder Jarten: Njorn Stairs (inside Utgarde Keep)
5. Remaining Achievements↑top
Elune's Blessing is granted after killing Omen for the
first time and all the coins-related and elders-related achievements are obtained
while visiting the Elders. The 3 remaining achievements are:
Lunar Festival Finery,
Frenzied Firecracker, and
The Rocket's Red Glare.
5.1. Lunar Festival Finery
To complete this achievement, simply acquire a festive piece of
clothing from Valadar Starsong. This will cost you 5
.
5.2. Frenzied Firecracker
To complete this achievement, buy 10
Festival Firecrackers from a
Lunar Festival Vendor in a capital city. Then, quickly use them all. Note
that there is a short cooldown so you should aim at using a new Firecracker as
soon as the cooldown is off.
5.3. The Rocket's Red Glare
To complete this achievement, proceed exactly the same as for
Frenzied Firecracker,
just that you will use
Red Rocket Clusters instead. Note that you need to stand next to
a Cluster Launcher to be able to use these items.
6. Conclusion↑top
We hope that this guide will have answered every question you had about
the Lunar Festival. If not, we encourage you to leave a comment or contact us
by e-mail, we will be happy to address the issue you encountered.